William Shakespeare Quotes about Art

When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art

When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.

William Shakespeare

Art, Hate, People

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

William Shakespeare

Art, Sassy, Heaven

William Shakespeare (1784). “Othello, the Moor of Venice, tragedy ... Marked with the variations in the Manager's book, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane”, p.68

The object of Art is to give life a shape.

William Shakespeare

Life, Art, Giving

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.

William Shakespeare

Art, Stills

William Shakespeare, Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1906). “The Works of William Shakespeare”

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.

William Shakespeare

Love, Sweet, Art

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?

William Shakespeare

Art, Sight, Feelings

'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.

William Shakespeare

Art, Strange, Lear

'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [70]

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

William Shakespeare

Fake People, Art, Science

'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 4, l. 7

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not.

William Shakespeare

Life, Art, Winter

'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

William Shakespeare

Art, Grief, Moon

William Shakespeare, Thomas BOWDLER (F.R.S.) (1831). “The Family Shakspeare ... By T. Bowdler ... Sixth Edition”, p.824

O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven

William Shakespeare

Art, Angel, Night

1595 Romeo of Juliet. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.1, l.68-70.

Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?

William Shakespeare

Art, Cat, Waiting

'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 35

Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

William Shakespeare

Art, Winter, Blow

'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

William Shakespeare

Girl, Death, Art

'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 258

Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.

William Shakespeare

Art, Cat, Animal

William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.189, Cambridge University Press

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

William Shakespeare

Art, Drinking, Food

'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [124]

Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.

William Shakespeare

Courage, Art, Action

William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.104

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

William Shakespeare

Art, Men, Night

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime...

William Shakespeare

Mother, Art, Glasses

Sonnet 3

O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!

William Shakespeare

Art, Struggle, Angel

William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.361, Bloomsbury Publishing

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .

William Shakespeare

Summer, Art, Wind

Sonnet 18

But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!

William Shakespeare

Art, Boys, Rose

William Shakespeare (1837). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare. Printed from the Text of the Most Renowned Editors, with ... Engravings, Accounts Historical and Explanatory of Each Play, a Copious and Elaborate Glossary, and the Author's Life [by C. Symmons].”, p.381

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

William Shakespeare

Art, Philosophy, History

'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 4, l. 9

My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.

William Shakespeare

Art, Cousin, Sassy

William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1829). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left”, p.130

What e'er thou art, act well thy part.

William Shakespeare

Art, Wells

William Shakespeare Quotes about Art

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